From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 5:38 PM
To: FDA Commissioner
Cc: president@whitehouse.gov; vice.president@whitehouse.gov;
fdadockets@oc.fda.gov; fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Oppose the New FDA Regulations on GE Foods!
FDA Commissioner
Dockets Management Branch (HFA 305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fisher's Lane, rm. 1061
Rockville, MD 20852
RE: Docket No. 00N-1396, and 00D-1598
Dear FDA,
I am bothered by the policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. I am
greatly opposed to your new “voluntary labeling” policy, which denies
consumers a basic right to know. Without mandatory labeling, neither
consumers nor health professionals will know if an allergic or toxic
reaction was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers will
also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold food
producers liable should any of these novel foods prove hazardous.
Your proposed rules appear to be a decision made to convenience industry
at the expense of public health and the environment. I trust you will take
my concern along with the thousands of others into serious consideration.
Sincerely,
Ebony J. Hull
Ebony Hull
580 Meetinghouse road
Ambler, PA, 19002
CC:
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Arlen Specter
Senator Rick Santorum
Representative James C. Greenwood
Representative Joseph HoeffelFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]
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